A few years ago a friend shared with me a video that completely shifted my mindset - it was Ben Kenny's Eulogy (Ben is one of the members of Incubus) recorded and filmed in his home studio. All of a sudden, I realized that amazing things can be done at home, and don't require huge investments as long as you have your tools, your talent, and, in my case, brilliant fellow-creatives who are on the same page with you.
I went to a mexican restaurant La Mesa that's near our place with my husband a couple of weeks ago, and saw their posters about coming up Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead, Mexico). Beautiful and spooky sugar skulls were all over the place - I got inspired! We had a beauty shoot planned last Monday before my trip to Los Angeles and I went to Hobby Lobby the night before and bought the fabrics and props to execute my "Sugar Skull" idea. Luckily, the girls supported it - I wasn't sure if our models wanted the scary skulls painted on their faces.
Mikala created the makeup base for the images we had in mind and I painted the rest in Photoshop. Check out the result image, some BTS snapshots and the retouching video:
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Model: Kortnye Hurst
Makeup & Hair: Mikala Jean Vandenbroucke
Photo & Post-production: Julia Kuzmenko | Visual Artist
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